Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear Eric, Thanks a lot for your response. Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600): > On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the > > Objective Caml[2] language. > > > > The tool is distributed with the

Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > Dear all, > > I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the > Objective Caml[2] language. > > The tool is distributed with the libraries it depends on (they are > provided as bundles). At one point, this was how both

Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Earnie
On 9/4/2015 8:26 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > Dear Eric, > > Thanks a lot for your response. > > Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600): >> On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the >>> Objective

Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/04/2015 02:26 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600): On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: Dear all, I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the Objective Caml[2] language. The tool is distributed with the libraries it

Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear Ralf, > Well, what I can tell you with my Fedora on is that in Fedora we discourage > bundling, because it in a nutshell raises a lot problems in maintenance, > both for system-integrators (read: distros) and upstreams. Many thanks for having written this. It is also what I think but I'd

Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hello Warren, Many thanks for providing all these useul comments. Warren Young (2015/09/04 12:27 -0600): > Left unsaid in Eric’s answer is that this change in distribution > philosophy happened *because* capable versions started appearing > everywhere, so it was no longer necessary to provide

Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Wookey
+++ Ralf Corsepius [2015-09-04 17:38 +0200]: > On 09/04/2015 02:26 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > >Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600): > >>On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > >>>Dear all, > >>> > >>>I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the >

Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 4, 2015, at 6:26 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600): >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#AM_005fGNU_005fGETTEXT >> https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Distributing-libltdl > > Thank. I think the bundle

Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 4, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > Warren Young (2015/09/04 12:27 -0600): > >> If you’re using libraries that are also not yet ubiquitous, the >> alternative to providing the sub-packages with the main package is to >> add a hard-fail autoconf test for them. > > You mean

Re: autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-04 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 4, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > I’m referring to the fact that with embedded tarballs, you can’t call > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() By the way, the how-to of conditional AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() is a FAQ. One set of answers is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15230696/

autocon and sub-packages

2015-09-03 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear all, I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the Objective Caml[2] language. The tool is distributed with the libraries it depends on (they are provided as bundles). For each dependency, coccinelle's configure script checks whether the library is already installed.